INSPIRE Web Coverage Service (WCS)

The EMIS Datasets are available as a Web Coverage Service (WCS) in accordance with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications (www.opengeospatial.org)

Like WMS, the WCS allows you to choose portions of a given dataset based on spatial constraints and allows the data to be processed rather just portrayed which is useful for client-side rendering and input into scientific models (see: EMIS-R & Marine Analyst tool).

Accessing the EMIS WCS

The EMIS WCS is accessible in 2 dataset resolutions (4km or 2km) for several sensors at the Pan-European scale. Enter one of the following addresses into your WCS client:

Using the information given in the GetCapabilities request, the GetCoverage operation returns a Geotiff image containing the requested layer selected from all the available layers as defined in the XML document.

The following is an example of a GetCoverage request that returns an image of the Sea Surface Temperature of the Black Sea from the MODIS-TERRA satellite (4km resolution) in June 2012: